It's a little bit too early to rejudge to say what any of these deals is going to look like. I think the fundamental thing that the president has said is, look, global trade has become fundamentally imbalanced. The American taxpayer and the American nation has become the piggy bank for the entire world. We absorb the world's producer surplus, but that's bad for American workers, it's bad for American exporters, and it's something the president ran on stopping, and I think that he's making great progress in stopping it early on in the second term. (04:41–04:46)
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